5. And he said to them: Come to me again after three days. And when the people were gone,
6. He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?
7. And they said to him: If thou please this people, and soothe them with kind words, they will be thy servants for ever.
8. But he forsook the counsel of the ancients, end began to treat with the young men, that had been brought up with him, and were in his train.
9. And he said to them: What seemeth good to you? or what shall I answer this people, who have said to me: Ease the yoke which thy father laid upon us?